Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A catalogue of Newberry's block-printed textiles by Ruth Barnes (published Oxford, 1997).
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Textile fragment with rosettes, squares, and diamond-shapes
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Literature notes
Rows of eight-petalled rosettes with a small circle at the centre of each, alternating with squares which hold a stepped diamond inside. The pattern is red, the background light.
Selvedge; the pattern is blurred on the reverse. The design may be compared to three fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim, although the similarities are general rather than specific (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 22, 23, & 41). The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L. -
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- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
- Dimensions
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32.5 x 8.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.322
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 313 on p. 93 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 93 fig. 313
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian, The Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Paris: Association pour l'étude et la documentation des textiles d'Asie, 1990), illus. 41, 48, 96-7, 106.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Rows of eight-petalled rosettes with a small circle at the centre of each, alternating with squares which hold a stepped diamond inside. The pattern is red, the background light.
Selvedge; the pattern is blurred on the reverse. The design may be compared to three fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim, although the similarities are general rather than specific (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 22, 23, & 41). The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L.
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